Power of Pattern: Central Asian Ikats, an interview with Clarissa Esguerra (Dressed Classic)

Dressed: The History of Fashion

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🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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We return to a 2019 interview with Clarissa Esguerra, Curator of Textiles and Costume at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), who taught us all about the sophisticated resist-dying ikat technique responsible for the resplendent textiles and garments on display in the LACMA exhibition Power of Pattern: Central Asian Ikats. Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion? Our website and classes Our Instagram Our bookshelf with over 150 of our favorite fashion history titles Dressed is a part of the AirWave Media network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Dress listeners, Bonjour from Paris.
0:03.3	Yes, we are currently on our annual summer hiatus from the show as we conduct our summer fashion
0:08.7	history tours of the City of Lights.
0:10.9	But worry not, we will be back in August with brand new content dedicated to all of the
0:15.0	exciting fashion history exhibitions and other behind-the-scenes experiences we have encountered
0:19.9	well here.
0:20.9	Until then, please enjoy this episode from the Dressed Archive of over 500 past shows.
0:48.4	Music With over 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.
0:50.5	Every day, we all get dressed.
0:55.3	Welcome to Dressed, the history of fashion, a podcast where we explore the who, what, when of why we wear. We are fashion historians and your host, April Callahan, and Cassidy
1:00.8	Zachary. Well, dress listeners, we have long promised an episode on today's subject, and I am
1:07.0	thrilled that this is a topic we get to cover with my dear friend Clarissa Ascara,
1:12.0	who just happens to be the associate curator of costume and textiles at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
1:18.3	Clarissa has worked at the museum since 2008 and is the curator behind Lackma's current exhibition,
1:24.6	Power of Pattern, Central Asian Ecots, which is now on view until August 11th.
1:30.4	And Cassidy, you know I'm very excited for this episode because I'm only minorly obsessed
1:36.0	with ECO.
1:38.1	I know you are, and believe me, you are all in for a treat.
1:42.7	So, Clarissa, thank you so much for joining us and welcome to the show.
1:46.2	Clarissa, welcome to the show. We are so excited to have you here with us today.
1:50.5	It's a pleasure to be here. Thank you for inviting me. Yeah, and before we delve into this
1:54.6	fascinating history of Central Asian Ecotts, which I can't wait to delve into, but first, I wanted to talk
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